Beating the raccoon,
1990
Documentary short
In this unlikely encounter between musicians and raccoons, you’ll have never seen a musical performance, or raccoons for that matter, quite so up close…
If jazz is a genre where, in turn and together, performers develop a musical idea, the cinematographic approach and editing of this short film were inspired by the same spirit of exchange.

With the help of miniature cameras, the viewer is brought into the music, right up to the sources of the sounds. The lens, fixed to the bow of the violin, under the skin of the darbouka, flush with the vibrating strings of the cello and guitar, takes us to a novel place where the musician’s dialogue becomes a conversation of images, an exchange of perspectives, an elemental shamanic dance.
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Vidéo 1″ , film 16mm N/B, 4 minutes 39 sec.
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Artistic subject

Videos

Main collaborators

Design, production and editing
Philippe Baylaucq

Music and performance
Icarus :
Stéphane Allard
Eric Longsworth
Pierre Tanguay
Marc Villemure

Production team<
Malcolm Cecil
Danny David
Carole Gélinas
Sylvie Pagé

Masks
Philippe Baylaucq

Costumes
Catherine Handfield

Magiscope Post-Production
Guy Laurent
Gaétan Huot

Producers
Baylaucq /Icarus

Set Photographer
Malcolm Cecil

Beating the raccoon,
1990
Writer Director
Produced by Passerelle Production
Prizes, nominations and selections
Official Selection Yorkton Festival 1991.
Winner, Special Jury Prize, Golden Sheaf Awards.
Finalist, the MUSIQUEPLUS VIDEOGALA’91,
Best instrumental short.

Making of

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Cinéaste et metteur en espace / Filmmaker Spacemaker